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That certainly fits with what I had tried. I did not get the Text3d to
work but that might have been caused by other misunderstandings on my
part.<br>
<br>
I will try again and see where I fall down next.<br>
<br>
Any idea about where to find the sources for the documentation?<br>
I would not mind putting some effort into fixing things where I can.<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks for helping me onto the track. I am trying to script an
animation of some very simple objects that are replicated in various
combinations in different animations.<br>
<br>
Probably a programmer's solution to a problem that would be more easily
solved by a graphic artist. :-)<br>
<br>
<br>
Ron<br>
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Nery Chucuy wrote:
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cite="mid:b199cb620910050653t190f4583i2a948b26ad99d159@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hello Ron,
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<div>I've been using Python API for some time and yes, the
documentation is not that clear but if you put a attention you'll get
what you want.</div>
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<div>What I think you want to use in this case is not a Text but a
Text3d. Text is for the TextEditor and Text3d is for the object that
appears through the menu: Add>Text.</div>
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</div>
<div>Hope this helps,</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Nery Chucuy (idesisnery)<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/5 Ron Wheeler <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:rwheeler@artifact-software.com">rwheeler@artifact-software.com</a>></span><br>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">In
general, the API documentation is terrible (examples use methods or<br>
properties that do not appear in the documentation,<br>
lots of properties and methods seem to work that are not documented)<br>
but I have not been able to find the sources for any of the<br>
documentation or find the code for the classes in the sources so I can<br>
read them for the whole story.<br>
<br>
I am currently stuck on trying to add Text to a scene as a child of a<br>
mesh that I want to animate with a script.<br>
<br>
The following code is supposed to generate a text Object that I can<br>
associate to a mesh as a child.<br>
<br>
It generates an error.<br>
The scn is OK and I can add a camara, a Lamp and a bunch of meshes to it<br>
but creating text in the scene does not seem to work.<br>
<br>
<br>
def makeTextObject(scn,name,text,type="top"):<br>
myTxt=Text.New("MyText")<br>
myTxt.write("test Text")<br>
print "Made a text called " + myTxt.name<br>
<br>
textOb = scn.objects.new(myTxt) #Generates the TypeError<br>
<br>
print "Made a Text object called " + textOb.name + "containing" + text<br>
return textOb<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
TypeError: expected an object and optionally a string as arguments<br>
<br>
x<br>
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